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Borrowed Words From Quechua
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- cocoa
- condor
- guanaco
- guano
- Inca
- jerky
- llama
- maté
- puma
- quinine
- totora
- vicuña
Erstellt: 2010-03
- cocoa
- condor
- guanaco
- guano
- Inca
- jerky
- llama
- maté
- puma
- quinine
- totora
- vicuña
- Ayahuasca † from aya "soul" or "spirit" and huasca "vine" , via Spanish ayahuasca
- Coca † from kuka, via Spanish coca
- Cocaine † from kuka (see above), probably via French cocaïne
- Condor † from kuntur, via Spanish cóndor
- Guanaco † from wanaku
- Guano † from wanu via Spanish guano
- Inca † from Inka
- Jerky † from ch'arki, via Spanish charquí
- Lagniappe † from yapay, "add, addition", via Spanish la ñapa (with the definite article la).
- Lima † from rimay, "speak" (from the name of the city, named for the Rimaq river ("Speaking River"))
- Llama † from llama, via Spanish
- Pisco † from pisqu, "little bird" (not from [1] )
- Puma † from puma, via Spanish
- Quinine † from kinakina, via Spanish quina
- Quinoa † from kinwa
- Soroche † from suruqch'i, "mountain sickness"[86][87] (not from [2] )
- Vicuña † from wik'uña, via Spanish vicuña
Words in English from Amerindian Languages
Compiled by Mark Rosenfelder. This list may seem exhaustive, but it's not-- the OED lists a few hundred more words. But they're pretty obscure.
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